The Spiritual Journey From Conditional Love To Awareness Of Self

When you are born you are like an empty sponge. The moment of your birth begins the process of soaking up your environment and the establishment of your initial belief system. Your mother and father began the process of introducing you to conditional love because that is the belief system they were immersed in.

Thus you began the process of establishing your initial belief system thinking that conditional love is how love is supposed to be experienced on your life journey.

You projected the premise taught to you by your parents that love is conditional and success is desired, onto God. It is a simplistic kind of thing to do, given the power and magnificence of God, but in so doing you are able to verify what you had been taught.

God has set conditions on you, just like your parents, and he will judge you on how well you live up to his conditions and then reward or punish you accordingly. He does this because he is separate from you, holds power over you and is the ultimate judge.

This is our mythology of separation from our source. It is a fear-based mythology, a mythology that builds on itself by feeding on the answers to two of life's great illusions. The first great illusion is that God cares, one way or the other, about what we do.

This God has to care about what we do because it is the only way he will know how to judge us. Would he need to judge us if the outcome of our lives is assured? Absolutely not. He needs to judge us in order to feed into the second great illusion which is that the outcome of our lives is in doubt. According to the paradigm of separation the outcome of our lives is in doubt because until God judges us by caring about what we do, we don't know if we will be accepted into heaven or condemned to hell. It is all conditional.

This behavior will continue as long as we do what we are taught and choose fear-based thoughts to create our lives, thoughts of succeeding, surviving, and winning in a world where we are separate entities. To change this paradigm and view the world and our life from a different perspective, we need to put aside what we have been taught by our well-intended teachers of this external world and begin to listen to the tutoring wisdom taught by another source.

In order to shift the well entrenched paradigm which tells us that we are separate and go to a paradigm of oneness we need to go from an external way of teaching and learning to an internal process of remembering and creation.

This does not mean that we do not need teachers and guides to help us in the physical world. The unconditionally loving God of unity and oneness has always provided people among us who know the truths of living in oneness and are here to teach and guide us so that we may know ourselves. Some of the more famous teachers have been Jesus, Buddha, Mohamed, Moses, Krishna, Abraham and many, many more. These historical figures set the tenets for our belief in the idea of an unconditionally loving God.

There are many people who we do not label as teachers of God's wisdom, but who walk among us and display through their lives the lessons needed to guide us on our journey. We have all met these mentors and have been inspired (in spirit) by them.

These are great teachers, and the message and inspiration they give us is truly a blessing when we are on our path to know God and live a life of love. But these are all external sources and when we make the huge paradigm shift from separation to oneness a large part of the creation of this new paradigm is that our best reference source, and greatest reminder of who we are, is inside ourselves and we need to listen to the voice within.

The voice within us is the most accessible tool available to us to communicate with our source. It is the voice we need to cultivate, because it is the loudest voice with which God speaks. God uses many other forms of communicating, and her messages are sent out to us all the time.

They may come in the form of an article from a nine-month-old magazine at the barbershop, or from the words of a song on the radio, or from a bum panhandling on the street, or from a babbling brook as you walk in the woods. These communications are sent to us constantly. Most of the human race is sleepwalking through this world and the bulk of these messages are not received, and consequently not interpreted by us to use in our evolvement.

We all, however, know the voice within. But even this voice can be suspect because the voice within also lives in duality in this relative world. There is you inner voice that speaks from the love-based sacred self, and there is the inner voice that speaks from the fear-based ego.

Discernment is necessary to distinguish between the two. Remember, if the message from the inner voice is love-based, it will serve you. If the message is fear-based, it will not serve you.

Another one of the key elements of unity consciousness is awareness, so that you don't continually miss out on love-based types of communications. Even sleepwalkers are aware of the voice within them, because it is the loudest and closest voice God uses to guide us in our journey.

But being aware of the voice is different than being awake and aware of the message the voice teaches us. Sleepwalkers hear the voice but are too often not aware of the message. Keep in mind that this voice helps us define what serves us and what does not as it relates to our particular journey and can be used as a dependable compass to help us find and keep our direction as we travel down our path.

It is entirely up to you to interpret and use this voice or ignore its messages. It is entirely up to you to discern whether the words you are reading right now are words of love, which may serve you, or words of fear, which may not serve you.

When you start to understand and are able to discern what serves you, you are on the path to inner peace. As you begin to wake up and walk in awareness, you begin to desire more of the experiences that serve you, and begin to turn away from those experiences that do not serve you.

Your desires and intentions begin to align with your definition of who you wish to be, so you begin to monitor your thoughts to help get you there. You awaken from sleepwalking and begin to walk in awareness. You choose the thoughts that serve you and create your life consciously. You are aware that you are one with God and possess the same powers of creation that God has.

This is the natural consequence of waking up to who you really are.